JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER
WORLD POWERS IN THE LAST DAYS (END OF AGE OF GRACE NOT THE WORLD)
EUROPEAN UNION-KING OF WEST-DAN 9:26-27,DAN 7:23-24,DAN 11:40,REV 13:1-10
EGYPT-KING OF THE SOUTH-DAN 11:40
RUSSIA-KING OF THE NORTH-EZEK 38:1-2,EZEK 39:1-3
CHINA-KING OF THE EAST-DAN 11:44,REV 9:16,18
VATICAN-RELIGIOUS LEADER-REV 13:11-18,REV 17:4-5,9,18
WORLD TERRORISM
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
2 PETER 2:5
5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
2 PETER 3:7
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men
LEVITICUS 26:16
16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you( sudden) terror(ISM), consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her,(HAGAR) Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he (ISHMAEL) will be a wild (DONKEY-JACKASS) man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE AND DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against him;(PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)
ISAIAH 14:12-14
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I (SATAN HAS EYE TROUBLES) will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(AND 1/3RD OF THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN FELL WITH SATAN AND BECAME DEMONS)
ISAIAH 33:1,18-19 Woe to thee that spoilest,(destroys) and thou wast not spoiled;(destroyed) and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil,(destroy) thou shalt be spoiled;(destroyed) and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.
JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.(ISLAM MURDERS IN THE NAME OF MOON GOD ALLAH OF ISLAM)
Six EU countries join group to 'destroy' Islamic State-Today @ 12:41-SEPT 7,14-EUOBSERVER-By Andrew Rettman
NEWPORT - Six EU countries have joined a US-led coalition to “degrade and destroy” the Islamic State [IS] in Iraq and Syria.The “Core Group” came together at the Nato summit in Wales on Thursday and Friday (5-6 September).On the EU side, it includes: Denmark; France; Germany; Italy; Poland; and the UK. The other members are Australia; Canada; Turkey; and the US.US president Barack Obama told press: “We are going to degrade and ultimately destroy ISIL [an alternative name for IS] ... the same way we’ve gone after al-Qaeda, and the same way we’ve gone after its affiliates in Somalia”.IS is a radical Sunni Muslim group which controls territory in Iraq and Syria.It is considered a threat to EU countries because hundreds of European Muslims have joined it and might come home to carry out terrorist attacks.It has also beheaded Western hostages and exterminated Christian communities.Obama noted the US has already carried out “more than 100” air strikes on IS forces.France, Germany, Italy, the UK, and the US have also supplied small arms and heavy-calibre machine guns to Kurdish forces in northern Iraq to help them fight the jihadists.But Core Group leaders at the Nato event ruled out: sending ground troops; negotiating with IS on hostages; or forming an alliance with IS adversary, Syrian leader Bashar Assad.They said the campaign could take up to three years.They also said Western diplomacy will play an important role in persuading Arab allies to deligitimise IS.“It is critical to have Arab states, and major Sunni states, rejecting the kind of nihilism which ISIL represents and saying that this is not what Islam is about”, Obama said.Replying to questions on co-operation with Assad, British leader David Cameron added: “We can’t act in a way that undermines our moral authority, to start acting on the principle that my enemy’s enemy is my friend”.For his part, Nato head Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the alliance itself will not play a combat role.But it is willing to launch a training mission for Iraqi security forces if the incoming Iraqi government asks it to.Rasmussen also said Nato states will share more intelligence on IS financing and overseas recruitment. “The issue of returning foreign fighters is really a matter of concern from [Nato’s] security point of view”, he noted.
Nato expansion unlikely before late 2015-05.09.14 @ 16:36-EUOBSERVER-By Andrew Rettman
NEWPORT - Nato leaders have indicated the alliance will not take in any new aspirant states until late next year.Its secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, said at the Nato summit in Wales on Friday (5 September): “We will assess, at the end of 2015 at the latest, whether to invite Montenegro to join the alliance”.He added that the two sides will “intensify” co-operation in the meantime, with Nato officials saying Montenegro still has homework on technical military standards.Two other countries - Bosnia and Macedonia - have membership action plans.Georgia has asked to join. Opinion surveys in Ukraine after Russia invaded the country say most people also want to be in the alliance.Rasmussen noted that Georgia’s next step is to become part of an “enhanced co-operation group”, together with Australia, Jordan, Moldova, and Sweden.He did not mention Ukraine.But he added, alluding to Russia’s opposition to Nato expansion, that: “Nato’s door remains open. Each country will continue to be judged on its merits and no third party has a veto over Nato enlargement”.Ukraine is planning to introduce a bill to scrap its non-aligned status so that it can apply one day.Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko, speaking in Wales on Wednesday, indicated that he might hold a referendum on the question in the coming years.“When the country will be adequately prepared for the [technical] criteria of membership, the Ukrainian people will decide”, he said.But German chancellor Angela Merkel told German press the same evening that Ukrainian accession is not on Nato’s agenda at this time.On Bosnia, a Nato official said it is stuck in limbo, due, in part, to disagreements between ethnic Serbs and Bosniaks on which bits of the federation should host which military bases.He added that Greece-Macedonia talks “have not gone well” on the name dispute, which has seen Greece veto Macedonia’s Nato entry because Macedonia uses the same name as a bordering Greek province. Rasmussen’s comments on Russia’s non-veto come despite the risk that pro-Russia forces will occupy east and south Ukraine in a frozen conflict designed to stop it from joining Western blocs.The situation already exists in Georgia and Moldova, where Russian soldiers protect three breakaway republics.The Nato official added that a border dispute does not categorically rule out Nato entry, however.“It’s not a show-stopper”, he said, noting that Norway joined the alliance despite having a maritime boundary dispute with Russia at the time.Two other Nordic nations - Finland and Sweden - at the Nato summit signed a “host nation status” agreement which allows Nato troops to deploy on their territory in future.Neither has joined Nato because Finland is wary of antagonising Russia, but both have worked on Nato “inter-operability” for several years.Asked by EUobserver if Rasmussen’s mention of late-2015 means no new members until that time, the Nato official said “unless of course Finland or Sweden opt to join … if they do, they would walk in within a week”.
EU to adopt Russia sanctions despite ceasefire-05.09.14 @ 20:18-EUOBSERVER-By Andrew Rettman
NEWPORT - EU countries are to adopt new sanctions on Russia despite the Ukraine ceasefire, but might revoke them if things go well.German chancellor Angela Merkel said at a Nato summit in Wales on Friday (5 September) that the situation is “fluid … one has to look at the ceasefire, if it holds. One has to look at the Russian troops, are they withdrawing?”She added: “these sanctions could indeed be put in place … but with the stipulation they can be suspended again [if the peace process succeeds]”.British PM David Cameron said: “Be in no doubt: the sanctions go ahead as announced”.“But if the ceasefire agreement holds and leads to a genuine peace plan … it would be right to take a second look”.Dutch PM Mark Rutte noted: “First see, then believe - the sanctions process will continue”.The sanctions are being imposed because thousands of Russian infantry troops and hundreds of armoured vehicles invaded east Ukraine last week.The EU leaders spoke after Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko told media on the golf course at the Nato event that he had agreed ceasefire terms with pro-Russia rebels.But the EU and US are sceptical the deal will stick or that Russia will give back conquered territory.US president Barack Obama also said “we [the US] are finalising measures to deepen sanctions against Russia”.“With respect to the ceasefire, we are hopeful, but, based on past experience, also sceptical”.Russia’s timing of the ceasefire agreement - on the last day of an EU ultimatum and the last day of the Nato meeting - led some to see it as a trick.“What we’ve seen in Ukraine since the start of the conflict is the creation of ambiguity designed to delay, or paralyse, [Western] decision making”, a Nato military commander, Sir Adrian Bradshaw, noted.The new sanctions are to include more restrictions on Russian banks, oil firms, and defence companies, as well as more names on the EU’s visa ban and asset freeze list.A British diplomat told EUobserver they are to be finalised on Friday and enter into life on Monday when they are published in the bloc’s Official Journal.One EU diplomat said the economic sanctions could be agreed on Friday, but the blacklist might wait until next week. A second EU diplomat said - “Inshallah” - both would be ready for Monday.
Rapid reaction force
The sanctions decision is just one part of the Western reaction to Russia’s war on Ukraine.Obama noted there will be more Nato air patrols in the Baltic region, more warships in the Black Sea, and more exercises in eastern Europe.The allies agreed to stop making defence cuts in their budgets.They agreed to create, by early or mid-2015, a Very High Readiness Joint Task Force of 4,000 men to deter Russian aggression on Nato’s eastern borders.They could not agree on hosting them in permanent bases in the region because Merkel opposed the idea, Spiegel reports.But they compensated Poland by deciding to hold their next summit, in 2016, in Warsaw.“It will be an extremely interesting experience - a Nato summit in Warsaw, the same place where some time ago we saw the fall of the Warsaw Pact”, Polish president Bronislaw Komorowski said, referring to the collapse of the Communist defence alliance after 1989.
THE EARTH (WORLD) NEVER ENDS (AS WORLD ENDERS CLAIM)(THE END OF THE AGE OF GRACE ONLY)(DECIEVERS CLAIME THE END OF THE WORLD-NOT ME)
ECCLESIASTES 1:4
4 One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.(AND EVER)(WORLD NEVER ENDS)(END OF THE AGE OF GRACE ONLY,NOT THE END OF THE WORLD)
PSALMS 104:5
5 Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.(NO END OF THE WORLDERS NONESENSE HERE)
MATTHEW 5:5
5 Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.(FOREVER,NOT HEAVEN)
PSALMS 37:29
29 The righteous shall inherit the land,(ON EARTH) and dwell therein for ever.
ISAIAH 45:17
17 But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation:(FOREVER) ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.(JERUSALEM ISRAEL ON EARTH FOREVER-NEVER ENDING)
EPHESIANS 3:21
21 Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
GENESIS 1:1-3
1 In the beginning God(FATHER,SON JESUS) created the heaven and the earth.
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the(HOLY)Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.(THE TRINITY CREATED ALL IN THE BEGINNING)
3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Stephen Hawking: God particle could wipe out the universe-cnet-In a preface to new book, the famed physicist fears the Higgs Boson becoming unstable and causing a "catastrophic vacuum decay." But how likely is that really?-by Chris Matyszczyk-September 7, 2014 9:30 AM PDT
Stephen Hawking seems to have turned into the man with the sandwich board that says: "The end is nigh."Not only has he warned us that aliens might destroy us, but he's also been worrying that artificial intelligence might do the same.Now he's perceiving a threat that might not merely put an end to Earth, but to the whole Universe.As the UK's Sunday Times reports, Hawking is worried about the God particle. This, discovered by physicists during experiments within CERN's Large Hadron Collider, is a vital ingredient to explaining why things in our world have mass.However, in a preface to a new book called "Starmus" -- a collection of lectures gives by famous scientists and astronomers -- Hawking worried that the Higgs Boson might become unstable.He wrote: "The Higgs potential has the worrisome feature that it might become metastable at energies above 100bn gigaelectronvolts (GeV)."What might this lead to? Hawkins explained: "This could mean that the universe could undergo catastrophic vacuum decay, with a bubble of the true vacuum expanding at the speed of light. This could happen at any time and we wouldn't see it coming." Before you prepare your loved ones for an evacuation to some distant star, Hawking did offer some hope with, it seems, a wry smile: "A particle accelerator that reaches 100bn GeV would be larger than Earth, and is unlikely to be funded in the present economic climate."More Technically IncorrectIn essence, then, his fears might be theoretically valid, but their likelihood of actually coming to pass is somewhat smaller than that of the New York Jets winning the next Super Bowl.Still, you have to wonder about Hawking's relationship with the Higgs Boson discovery. First, there's the fact that he lost a $100 bet over its unearthing. Then he mused last year that now the Higgs Boson had been identified, physics has become less interesting.However, given that he believes we only have perhaps 1,000 years left on Earth anyway, it's as well to explore every possible scenario, before the robots and algorithms secure minds of their own and, as their first step, eliminate us all.
09/ 7/2014 - VATICAN INSIDER-What about those Muslims who condemn Islamic State violence? Cairo - Al-Azhar university has spoken out against IS-Jihadist attacks continue to horrify the world. But the media is doing little to give a voice to non-violent Muslims who oppose the extremists. Three Catholic magazines have spoken out against this-Gerolamo Fazzini
Rome-Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists are spreading violence and death. The entire world is still shaken by the horrific murder of James Foley and Steven Sotloff, the two US journalists who were decapitated and the macabre scenes captured on video. International politics is trying to react but Muslim countries are expected to take more concrete initiatives.But within civil society “many Sunni Muslims have raised their voices against IS, even though this is not always mentioned in the media. This is not just the case in the West but also in more conservative Muslim countries,” writes Popoli, the international monthly magazine of the Jesuits in Italy.Among those who have spoken out against IS’s ferocity is the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Abdul Aziz ibn Abdullah Al-Sheikh, who on 19 August called both IS and Al Qaeda “Islam’s number one enemies,” adding that they did not belong to the common faith of all Muslims. The Wahhabi movement, which backs the Saudi regime shares some of the terrorists’ doctrines but is averse to their violent approach and the destabilizing threat they pose.”Key figures in the area have also condemned the attacks, Popoli goes on to say, starting with the Grand Mufti of Al-Azhar (Egypt), Shawqi Allam, who denounced ISIS as a threat to Islam. The Jesuit magazine also quotes the head of Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate, Mehmet Görmez, who said that "the statement made against Christians is truly awful. Islamic scholars need to focus on this (because) an inability to peacefully sustain other faiths and cultures heralds the collapse of a civilization.”Similarly, Missione Oggi, a magazine published by the Saverian missionaries of Brescia (Italy), writes: “Iraq’s Muslims are not all ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) extremists. Many are Muslims who want peace. Some have even died to defend Christians in Mosul. Mahmoud al ‘Asali was a law professor who lectured on pedagogy at the University of Mosul. He was killed because he had the courage to tell ISIS’s militants that that was not the Kind of Islam he believed in. He was fully aware of the risk he was running in stating this publicly. He refused to become an accomplice to violence and pay for this with his life.” Vatican Insider published an article about his experience, in July.The issue was also covered by Jesus magazine (September issue) in its “East east east” column. Jesus called the poor media coverage of Professor Al ‘Asali’s killing as a “sin of omission”. The monthly magazine published by Edizioni San Paolo explained that “his story shows that there are Muslims who are on the side of persecuted Christians. They are often referred to as “moderates” but this is too weak an adjective when one considers the incredibly high price such people often pay.”Jesus recalls that the Iraqi professor’s case is not an isolated one and leads one to reflect on other situations where Muslim representatives have taken a stand against violent extremism: “Another Muslim, Judge Arif Iqbal Bhatti also paid a high price. He was assassinated in Lahore (Pakistan) in 1997 after he had been accused of acquitting two Christians – Rehmat Masih and Salamat Masih - accused of blasphemy three years earlier. “In 2011, another Pakistani Muslim, Salman Taseer, governor of the Punjab region, was put to death for trying to combat Islamic extremism and being excessively sympathetic to the cause of persecuted Christians. Salman Taseer defended Asia Bibi, the 45-year-old woman sentenced to death on charges of blasphemy and still awaiting a ruling on the appeal of her death sentence. Shahbaz Bhatti, the Christian minister for religious minorities had been working alongside him in support of this cause: both were killed within three months of each other.”
09/ 7/2014 - VATICAN INSIDER-Francis: “Insulting is not Christian! Even words kill”-The Pope during the Angelus-At today’s Angelus Francis spoke about fraternal correction and sent out an appeal for the ceasefire in eastern Ukraine: “I pray that … the dialogue that has started will continue to bear the fruit that is hoped”-marco tosatti
vatican city-Insulting is not Christian and we must not kill with words. Commenting on today’s Gospel reading on fraternal correction, Pope Francis stressed that relations between Christians and between Christians and others must reflect a spirit of charity and an awareness that we are all sinners and need God’s mercy.“How do I correct another Christian when he or she does a bad thing?” Francis asked. “I have to use charity towards him/her and, first of all, talk to him/her personally.” Francis recalled the three steps the Gospel suggests should be taken: “talk to him personally, explaining that what he has said or done is not good. And if the brother does not listen to me? Jesus suggests a progressive intervention: first, go back with two or three other people to make him more aware of the mistake he has made. If, despite this, he does not accept the exhortation, I need to tell the community. And if he won’t even listen to the community, I need to make him feel the fracture and detachment that he himself has caused, by failing in communion with our brothers and sisters in the faith.”“Fraternal correction” is a “reciprocal service.” It is rooted in the awareness that we are all sinners and that Jesus “invites everyone, saints and sinners, to his table.” Francis then went on to condemn gossip as he has done on various other occasions in the past: On this path of fraternal correction “it is first necessary to avoid the clamor of news and the gossip of the community.”“An attitude of gentleness, prudence, humility, and attention against those who have committed a crime, avoiding that words can hurt and kill the brother … When I make an unfair criticism, when I “curse” a brother with my tongue, this is killing the reputation of the other!” Fraternal correction “also helps us – us - to free ourselves from anger or resentment which only hurt: that bitterness of the heart that brings anger and resentment, and that lead us to insult and attack. But it is very bad to see this come out of the mouth of a Christian as an insult or an attack! It’s bad! Got it? No insults! Insulting is not Christian!” He stressed this idea twice in order to highlight the importance of this concept.By correcting our brothers and sisters, we are doing them a service because we are all sinners and the best way to prepare ourselves properly for mass is to reflect on the fact that we are all sinners and then that God is merciful with everyone. “The same conscience that makes me recognize the mistake of the other, beforehand reminds me that I have erred and wronged so many times. “And it is the same Jesus who invites us all, saints and sinners, to his table by gathering us on the main crossroads, the various situations life.”At the end of the Angelus prayer, recited in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Francis sent out a special appeal for the Russo-Ukrainian crisis that is still raging. “In these last few days have been significant steps in the search for a truce in the regions affected by the conflict in eastern Ukraine. I hope that they can bring relief to the population and contribute to the efforts for a lasting peace. I pray that, in the logic of the meeting, the dialogue that has started will continue to bear the fruit that is hoped,” he said.
U.S. air strikes target insurgents near Iraq's Haditha Dam-Reuters-By Ned Parker and Phil Stewart-SEPT 7,14-YAHOONEWS
BAGHDAD/TBILISI (Reuters) - U.S. warplanes carried out four strikes on Islamic State insurgents menacing Iraq's Haditha Dam on Sunday, witnesses and officials said, widening what President Barack Obama called a campaign to curb and ultimately defeat the jihadist movement.Obama has branded Islamic State an acute threat to the West as well as Middle East and said that key NATO allies stand ready to back Washington in action against the well-armed sectarian force, which has seized expanses of northern Iraq and eastern Syria and declared a border-blurring religious caliphate.The leader of a pro-Iraqi government paramilitary force in western Iraq said the air strikes wiped out an Islamic State patrol trying to attack the dam - Iraq's second biggest hydroelectric facility that also provides millions with water."They (the air strikes) were very accurate. There was no collateral damage ... If Islamic State had gained control of the dam, many areas of Iraq would have been seriously threatened, even (the capital) Baghdad," Sheik Ahmed Abu Risha told Reuters.The aerial assault drove Islamic State fighters away from the dam, according to a police intelligence officer in the vast western province of Anbar, a hotbed of Islamist insurgency.A mix of fighter and bomber aircraft destroyed five Islamic State Humvees, one IS armed vehicle, an IS checkpoint and also damaged an IS bunker, the U.S. military added in a statement.The strikes were Washington's first reported offensive into Anbar since it started attacks on Islamic State forces in the north of Iraq in August.Almost three years afters U.S. troops withdrew from Iraq and 11 years after their invasion to topple Saddam Hussein, the war on Islamic State is drawing Washington back into the middle of Iraq's power struggles and bloody sectarian strife.U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said the strikes on the Sunni Muslim insurgents had been carried out at the request of the Shi'ite Muslim-led central government in Baghdad.“If that dam would fall into (Islamic State's) hands or if that dam would be destroyed, the damage that would cause would be very significant and it would put a significant, additional and big risk into the mix in Iraq,” Hagel told reporters during a trip to Georgia’s capital Tbilisi.
OBAMA VOWS TO REPEL, DEFEAT ISLAMIC STATE
Obama said at the weekend he would explain to Americans this week his plan to "start going on some offense" against Islamic State. "We are going to be a part of an international coalition, carrying out air strikes in support of work on the ground by Iraqi troops, Kurdish troops, he said in an NBC TV interview."We are going to systematically degrade their capabilities. We're going to shrink the territory that they control. And ultimately we're going to defeat 'em."The six-month-old battle for control of the Haditha Dam has been a rare case of cooperation between local Sunni tribes and the Shi'ite-led Iraqi military. The Juhayfa tribe in Haditha has a long-standing fight with the Islamic State, which split with its parent organization al Qaeda last year.Anbar is complicated terrain for the Americans as they seek to root out Islamic State, since Sunnis fighting on behalf of the Baghdad government are the exception to the rule.The large desert province, bordering Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, has been at war with Baghdad since last December when then-Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki sent troops to raze an anti-government demonstrators' camp.That sparked a tribal revolt against Maliki whom Sunnis accused of isolating them with indiscriminate arrests. Islamic State fighters took advantage of the chaos to muscle in and become the dominant force among Sunnis.The fighting there, which has displaced 430,000 people since January, strengthened Islamic State ahead of its lightning blitz this summer across the north of Iraq, also threatening the semi-autonomous, Western-backed enclave of Kurdistan.Thriving on Maliki's sectarian-motivated alienation of Sunnis, Islamic State committed wide-scale atrocities against Shi'ites, Christians and other non-Sunnis this summer as the Iraqi army imploded in the face of the insurgents' advance.Since June, Islamic State has massacred hundreds of soldiers outside of Saddam's hometown Tikrit after capturing it, and killed a similar number of Yazidis and other religious minorities outside of Mosul, the north's biggest city.Obama ordered air strikes in northern Iraq last month as Kurdish-controlled territory fell to the Islamic State and the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan looked in endangered.Last weekend, U.S. warplanes carried out raids further south in the province of Saluhuddin to break an Islamic State siege of the Shi'ite Turkmen town of Amerli.(Additional reporting by Phil Stewart in Tbilisi, Roberta Rampton and Steve Holland in Washington; Editing by Mark Heinrich)
Four NATO allies deny Ukraine statement on providing arms-Reuters-SEPT 7,14-YAHOONEWS
KIEV (Reuters) - A senior aide to Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko said on Sunday that Kiev had agreed at the NATO summit in Wales on the provision of weapons and military advisers from five NATO member states, but four of the five swiftly denied any such deal had been reached.NATO officials have previously said the alliance will not send arms to non-member Ukraine, but have also said individual allies may do so if they wish. A NATO official contacted by Reuters on Sunday on the Lytsenko comment reiterated this policy."At the NATO summit agreements were reached on the provision of military advisers and supplies of modern armaments from the United States, France, Italy, Poland and Norway," Poroshenko aide Yuri Lytsenko said on his Facebook page.Lytsenko gave no further details. He may have made his comment for domestic political reasons to highlight the degree of NATO commitment to Ukraine and to its pro-Western president.Poroshenko, whose armed forces are battling pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, attended the two-day summit in Wales that ended on Friday.A senior U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, denied that the United States had made such a pledge. The official told Reuters, "No U.S. offer of lethal assistance has been made to Ukraine."Asked about Lytsenko's comments, defense ministry officials in Italy, Poland and Norway also denied plans to provide arms.In France, an aide at the Elysee palace declined to comment."This news is incorrect. Italy, along with other EU and NATO countries, is preparing a package of non-lethal military aid such as bullet-proof vests and helmets for Ukraine," an Italian defense ministry official told Reuters.Norwegian Defense Ministry spokesman Lars Gjemble, speaking to the NTB news agency, said, "We're participating with staff officers in two military exercises in Ukraine, but it's not correct that we're delivering weapons to Ukraine."A Polish defense ministry spokesman, Lieutenant Colonel Jacek Sonta, said by email, "There (was) no agreement concerning supply of modern arms from Poland to Ukraine at the NATO summit."NATO officials have said the alliance will not send weapons to Ukraine, which is not a member state, but they have also said individual allies may choose to do so.Russia is fiercely opposed to closer ties between Ukraine and the NATO alliance.(Reporting by Gareth Jones in Kiev, Steve Scherer in Rome, Balasz Koranyi in Oslo and Marcin Goclowski in Warsaw, Will Dunham in Washington; Writing by Gareth Jones; Editing by Hugh Lawson)
Ceasefire in east Ukraine frays, woman killed by shelling-Reuters-SEPT 7,114-YAHOONEWS-Gabriela Baczynska and Aleksandar Vasovic
DONETSK/MARIUPOL Ukraine (Reuters) - A woman died and at least four people were wounded when fighting flared again in eastern Ukraine overnight into Sunday, jeopardizing a ceasefire struck less than two days earlier between Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian separatists.The accord, brokered by envoys from Ukraine, the separatist leadership, Russia and Europe's OSCE security watchdog, is part of a peace plan intended to end a five-month conflict that has killed nearly 3,000 people and caused the sharpest confrontation between Russia and the West since the Cold War.Shelling resumed near the port of Mariupol on the Sea of Azov late on Saturday, just hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko had agreed in a phone call that the truce was holding.Fighting also broke out early on Sunday on the northern outskirts of rebel-held Donetsk, the region's industrial hub. A Reuters reporter saw plumes of black smoke filling the sky near the airport, which has been in the hands of government forces."Listen to the sound of the ceasefire," joked one armed rebel. "There's a proper battle going on there."The two cities then turned quiet for much of Sunday, but a Reuters witness in the early evening reported several mortar blasts within the city confines of Donetsk. They damaged a bridge where the rebels had erected a roadblock.In a new report on the conflict, Amnesty International accused both the rebels and Ukrainian militia of war crimes and it published satellite images it said showed a build-up of Russian armor and artillery in eastern Ukraine."Our evidence shows that Russia is fuelling the conflict, both through direct interference and by supporting the separatists in the east. Russia must stop the steady flow of weapons and other support to an insurgent force heavily implicated in gross human rights violations," Amnesty's secretary-general, Salil Shetty, said in a statement.Moscow denies dispatching forces or arming the rebels despite what NATO says is overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
WESTERN ARMS - OR NOT?
Poroshenko spent Thursday and Friday at a NATO summit in Wales at which U.S. President Barack Obama and other leaders urged Putin to pull forces out of Ukraine. NATO also approved wide-ranging plans to boost its defenses in Eastern Europe in response to the Ukraine crisis.A senior aide to Poroshenko, Yuri Lytsenko, wrote on his Facebook page on Sunday that Kiev had reached agreement at the summit on receiving weapons and military advisers from five allies - the United States, France, Italy, Poland and Norway.He gave no further details, but four of the five countries denied offering such assistance.A senior Obama administration said the United States "has not changed policy" toward Ukraine, which thus far has been to provide only non-lethal military assistance.The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, did not appear to rule out the possibility that Washington might at some point choose to offer arms to Kiev.The official said the United States had so far given $70 million in security assistance to Ukraine and noted that U.S. President Barack Obama had said he was "looking at what more we can do."Officials in Italy, Norway and Poland issued similar denials."Italy, along with other EU and NATO countries, is preparing a package of non-lethal military aid such as bullet-proof vests and helmets for Ukraine," an official at Italy's Defence Ministry said.In France, an aide at the president's Elysee Palace declined to comment.NATO officials have said the alliance will not send arms to non-member Ukraine, but they have also said individual allies may do so if they wish. A NATO official contacted by Reuters on Sunday about the Lytsenko comment reiterated that line.Russia is fiercely opposed to closer ties between Ukraine and the NATO alliance.The Ukraine conflict has revived talk of a new Cold War as the West accuses Putin of deliberately destabilizing the former Soviet republic of 46 million people. Ukraine's prime minister accused Putin of striving to recreate the Soviet Union.Putin says he is defending the interests of ethnic Russians facing discrimination and oppression in Ukraine since protesters toppled Kiev's pro-Russian president in February.Putin has seen his popularity in Russia soar since Moscow annexed Ukraine's Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, which has a Russian majority, in March.
MUTUAL RECRIMINATIONS
Both the rebels and the Ukrainian military insisted on Sunday they were strictly observing the ceasefire and blamed their opponents for any violations."As far as I know, the Ukrainian side is not observing the ceasefire. We have wounded on our side at various points. We are observing the ceasefire," Vladimir Antyufeyev, deputy premier of the self-proclaimed "Donetsk People's Republic", told Reuters.Earlier, government forces said they had come under artillery fire east of Mariupol, a crucial port for Ukrainian steel exports. In the days before the ceasefire, they had been trying to repel a big rebel offensive against the city.The shelling in Mariupol claimed the first civilian casualty since the ceasefire began. Local officials confirmed the death of a 33-year-old woman early on Sunday and said at least four other people had been wounded."They, terrorists, Russians, are trying to scare us. They have no respect for the ceasefire. They are lying all the time. They are people with no honor," said Slavik, a Ukrainian soldier armed with a machinegun.A Reuters reporter at the scene, a few km (miles) from the center of the city of 500,000, saw fires raging just before midnight on Saturday as Ukrainian reinforcements raced east toward the demarcation line separating the two sides.Poroshenko agreed to the ceasefire after Ukraine accused Russia of sending troops and arms onto its territory to bolster the separatists after they suffered heavy losses over the summer to a Ukrainian government offensive.The peace roadmap agreed on Friday includes an exchange of prisoners of war and the establishment of a humanitarian corridor for refugees and aid. There was no sign of progress on either plan on Sunday.(Additional reporting by Steve Scherer in Rome, Marcin Goclowski in Warsaw, Adrian Croft in Brussels, Arshad Mohammed in Washington, and Julien Ponthus in Paris; Writing by Gareth Jones; Editing by Mark Heinrich, Sonya Hepinstall, Hugh Lawson and Peter Cooney)
Arab League chief: Confront Islamic State group-Associated Press-By SARAH EL DEEB and SAMEER N. YACOUB-SEPT 7,14-YAHOONEWS
CAIRO (AP) — The head of the Arab League urged its members Sunday to confront Islamic State extremists "militarily and politically," issuing an apparent call to arms as President Barack Obama prepares to go to lawmakers and the American public with his own plan to stop the militants.Backing from the 22-country Arab League could provide crucial support across the Middle East for Obama's effort to assemble an international coalition against the Islamic State, the marauding group that has conquered a swath of Iraq and Syria and committed beheadings and mass killings to sow terror.Already, NATO forces have agreed to take on the extremists.Arab League chief Nabil Elaraby said that what is needed from Arab countries is a "clear and firm decision for a comprehensive confrontation" with "cancerous and terrorist" groups. The Arab League includes Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Lebanon, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.Obama will meet with congressional leaders on Tuesday and then outline his plan to the war-weary American public Wednesday, the eve of the 13th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks."I just want the American people to understand the nature of the threat and how we're going to deal with it and to have confidence that we'll be able to deal with it," Obama said in an interview broadcast Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press."In new airstrikes Sunday, the U.S. targeted Islamic State fighters in Iraq's long-contested Anbar province for the first time, launching attacks with bomber and fighter aircraft.The American military said the airstrikes destroyed, among other things, an Islamic Group command post and several vehicles, two of which were carrying anti-aircraft artillery.It wasn't immediately clear what steps the Arab League would take in supporting the West's campaign against the Islamic State. And reaching a consensus on how to move could be complicated by Arab world rivalries and member countries' different spheres of influence.An Arab diplomat speaking to Egypt's official MENA news agency said a resolution backing cooperation with the U.S. would go before members Sunday. He did not elaborate.But a draft resolution obtained by The Associated Press offered only routine condemnation of terrorist groups operating in the region. It also called on member states to improve information-sharing and legal expertise in combating terrorism, and to prevent the paying of ransom to militants.Elaraby himself noted that the Arab League's member states have failed to help each other in the past when facing local armed groups, often because of disagreements and fear of being accused of meddling in one another's affairs.He called the Islamic State a threat to the existence of Iraq and its neighbors. It is "one of the examples of the challenges that are violently shaking the Arab world, and one the Arab League, regrettably, has not been able to confront," he said.A decades-old joint Arab defense agreement states that member countries can act alone or collectively to ward off attack and restore peace by all means, including force. Elaraby, a longtime Egyptian diplomat, said an agreement to activate that clause in the 1950 agreement is needed.Before the Arab League meeting, Elaraby spoke by telephone to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to discuss the Islamic State insurgents.A senior State Department official, speaking on condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to publicly discuss the private diplomatic conversation, said Kerry updated Elaraby on efforts to combat the insurgents."They discussed the need for the Arab League and its members to take a strong position in the coalition that is developing ... and the importance of decisive action" to stop the flow of foreign fighters, disrupt the Islamic State's financing and combat incitement, the official said.Kerry said the military aspect is only one part of the effort, and more comprehensive coordination with Arab countries — combining law enforcement, intelligence, economic and diplomatic tools — is required, the official said.Meanwhile, the U.S. said it launched airstrikes around Haditha Dam in western Iraq. U.S. officials said the offensive was an effort to beat back the militants from the dam, which remained under Iraqi control.The militants could have opened or damaged the dam, flooding wide areas as far as Baghdad's international airport, where hundreds of U.S. personnel are stationed, National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said.U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, traveling in Georgia, said the Iraqi government had asked the U.S. to launch the airstrikes.Amid the fighting, the province's governor and the mayor of Haditha were wounded by a roadside bomb, said Faleh al-Issawi, a member of Anbar's provincial council. Gov. Gov. Ahmed al-Dulaimi later tweeted that he was not seriously hurt.___Yacoub reported from Baghdad.___Associated Press writers Lolita C. Baldor in Tbilisi, Georgia, and Darlene Superville in Washington contributed to this report.
EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH(BECAUSE OF SIN,VIOLENCE AND GODLESS PEOPLE)
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Earthquake shakes Iceland volcano, still no ash-Reuters-SEPT 7,14-YAHOONEWS
REYKJAVIK (Reuters) - An earthquake struck the region around Iceland's Bardarbunga volcano on Sunday while fissures in the area continued to spew out lava but still none of the ash that could hamper airline traffic.The earthquake occurred at 0708 GMT and reached a magnitude of 5.4, making it one of the bigger quakes in the area in central Iceland since significant tremors began on Aug. 16, often producing thousands of quakes per day."There was also another quake, magnitude 4.6 at 0330 (GMT) in the night," said Bergthora Thorbjarnardottir, geologist at the Icelandic Meteorological Office."Seismic activity underneath Bardarbunga volcano is still ongoing but remains steady," she added.Lava from the fissures around Bardarbunga has so far reached the surface only on land that is not covered by ice, whereas an eruption under an ice cap may be explosive and result in an ash cloud that could under certain circumstances disrupt aviation.A cloud of abrasive ash from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano, in a different region of Iceland, closed much of Europe's air space for six days, stranding tens of thousands of passengers, after an eruption under the ice cap.The ash warning level for aviation related to the current fissure eruptions remained at orange, the second-highest level on a five-color scale, after several brief hikes to the top red in recent weeks.(Reporting by Robert Robertsson; writing by Niklas Pollard; Editing by Alison Williams)
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)
THE FIRST JUDGEMENT OF THE EARTH STARTED WITH WATER-IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THE LAST GENERATION WILL BE HAVING FLOODING
GENESIS 7:6-12
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
GOD PROMISED BY A RAINBOW-THE EARTH WOULD NEVER BE DESTROYED TOTALLY WITH A FLOOD AGAIN.BUT FLOODIING IS A SIGN OF JUDGEMENT.
Tropical storm Norbert weaker, but still lashing Mexico coast-AFP-SEPT 7,14-YAHOONEWS
La Paz (AFP) - Tropical storm Norbert weakened quickly over cool waters in the Pacific Ocean, forecasters said Sunday, after the storm left some 2,500 people homeless in Mexico.The storm had surged to a category three hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale but by Sunday had lost much of its punch and was downgraded to a tropical storm, packing top sustained winds of 60 miles (95 kilometers) per hour, said the US National Hurricane Center.Norbert was expected to mostly dissipate by Monday morning, the Miami-based center said.Nevertheless, "very heavy winds were expected on the west coast of Baja California Sur," in northwestern Mexico, "and there was potential of heavy rains in (neighboring states) Baja California and Sonora," Mexico's national weather service said.In the hard-hit fishing village of San Carlos, in southwest Baja California, pumps were draining flood waters after the storm destroyed levees protecting the community of 7,000 people.Local official Venustiano Perez had said Saturday night there were "more than 2,500 people homeless" and another 1,500 whose homes were damaged in the storm.Authorities in Baja California Sur said conditions had returned to normal in the state, but said they were maintaining surveillance in the northern part of the state and assessing a final damage tally.On Saturday, some 2,000 people were evacuated to shelters, which were then cut off by landslides and power outages.Last year, Mexico was simultaneously struck by a pair of hurricanes, Ingrid and Manuel, on both coasts, killing 157 people, destroying bridges and burying most of a mountain village in the Pacific coast state of Guerrero.
EARTHQUAKES
ISAIAH 42:15
15 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ Worldwide
35 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2014-09-07 19:05:19 UTC-04:00Showing event times using Local System Time (UTC-04:00)35 earthquakes in map area
2.7 7km WSW of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2014-09-07 16:30:55 UTC-04:00 5.0 km
3.1 50km N of Dorado, Puerto Rico 2014-09-07 15:04:27 UTC-04:00 49.0 km
2.5 4km NW of The Geysers, California 2014-09-07 14:33:01 UTC-04:00 0.0 km
2.6 10km W of Helena, Oklahoma 2014-09-07 14:15:32 UTC-04:00 9.4 km
3.0 57km SSE of Alturas, California 2014-09-07 14:13:57 UTC-04:00 0.1 km
4.4 42km WNW of Khairpur Nathan Shah, Pakistan 2014-09-07 13:04:49 UTC- 30.2 km
2.7 23km S of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska 2014-09-07 12:46:58 UTC-04:00 78.4 km
2.7 21km S of Medford, Oklahoma 2014-09-07 12:31:49 UTC-04:00 4.7 km
4.5 48km SSW of Jucuaran, El Salvador 2014-09-07 12:26:33 UTC-04:00 72.3 km
5.2 283km SE of Pondaguitan, Philippines 2014-09-07 11:55:50 UTC-04:00 66.7 km
3.5 43km SW of Ferndale, California 2014-09-07 11:45:34 UTC-04:00 16.3 km
4.8 17km S of Palpa, Peru 2014-09-07 11:11:45 UTC-04:00 65.9 km
3.0 24km SSW of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska 2014-09-07 11:05:26 UTC-04:00 122.0 km
4.5 124km E of Taltal, Chile 2014-09-07 10:31:45 UTC-04:00 109.6 km
4.2 56km WSW of Rosarito, Mexico 2014-09-07 08:13:56 UTC-04:00 29.6 km
2.6 2km E of Medford, Oklahoma 2014-09-07 07:51:33 UTC-04:00 5.0 km
2.8 78km WSW of Cantwell, Alaska 2014-09-07 07:51:07 UTC-04:00 102.2 km
5.1 Federated States of Micronesia region 2014-09-07 07:46:21 UTC-04:00 16.1 km
4.3 2km E of Cutigliano, Italy 2014-09-07 06:45:01 UTC-04:00 7.7 km
4.7 Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge 2014-09-07 06:31:54 UTC-04:00 10.0 km
4.6 72km SW of Lixourion, Greece 2014-09-07 05:56:28 UTC-04:00 32.6 km
4.5 183km S of Biha, Indonesia 2014-09-07 05:33:00 UTC-04:00 28.6 km
2.5 58km SSW of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska 2014-09-07 05:27:07 UTC-04:00 126.2 km
2.6 9km NE of Holbrook, Arizona 2014-09-07 05:07:48 UTC-04:00 5.0 km
4.3 31km NW of Shahrud, Iran 2014-09-07 04:12:54 UTC-04:00 10.0 km
5.2 117km WNW of Hofn, Iceland 2014-09-07 03:07:59 UTC-04:00 5.0 km
2.6 97km NNW of Yakutat, Alaska 2014-09-07 02:54:49 UTC-04:00 1.1 km
4.7 108km NNE of Tobelo, Indonesia 2014-09-07 01:37:42 UTC-04:00 49.3 km
5.0 100km WNW of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea 2014-09-07 01:23:48 UTC-04:00 10.0 km
4.6 93km SSW of Ndoi Island, Fiji 2014-09-07 00:35:47 UTC-04:00 560.5 km
2.8 58km N of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 2014-09-06 23:57:40 UTC-04:00 26.0 km
3.1 61km N of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 2014-09-06 23:49:39 UTC-04:00 24.0 km
3.7 67km ESE of Adak, Alaska 2014-09-06 23:08:15 UTC-04:00 25.4 km
4.8 51km S of Yonakuni, Japan 2014-09-06 19:33:08 UTC-04:00 23.8 km
4.1 14km WNW of La Gomera, Guatemala 2014-09-06 19:14:15 UTC-04:00 75.3 km
WORLD POWERS IN THE LAST DAYS (END OF AGE OF GRACE NOT THE WORLD)
EUROPEAN UNION-KING OF WEST-DAN 9:26-27,DAN 7:23-24,DAN 11:40,REV 13:1-10
EGYPT-KING OF THE SOUTH-DAN 11:40
RUSSIA-KING OF THE NORTH-EZEK 38:1-2,EZEK 39:1-3
CHINA-KING OF THE EAST-DAN 11:44,REV 9:16,18
VATICAN-RELIGIOUS LEADER-REV 13:11-18,REV 17:4-5,9,18
WORLD TERRORISM
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
2 PETER 2:5
5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
2 PETER 3:7
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men
LEVITICUS 26:16
16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you( sudden) terror(ISM), consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her,(HAGAR) Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he (ISHMAEL) will be a wild (DONKEY-JACKASS) man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE AND DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against him;(PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)
ISAIAH 14:12-14
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I (SATAN HAS EYE TROUBLES) will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(AND 1/3RD OF THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN FELL WITH SATAN AND BECAME DEMONS)
ISAIAH 33:1,18-19 Woe to thee that spoilest,(destroys) and thou wast not spoiled;(destroyed) and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil,(destroy) thou shalt be spoiled;(destroyed) and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.
JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.(ISLAM MURDERS IN THE NAME OF MOON GOD ALLAH OF ISLAM)
Six EU countries join group to 'destroy' Islamic State-Today @ 12:41-SEPT 7,14-EUOBSERVER-By Andrew Rettman
NEWPORT - Six EU countries have joined a US-led coalition to “degrade and destroy” the Islamic State [IS] in Iraq and Syria.The “Core Group” came together at the Nato summit in Wales on Thursday and Friday (5-6 September).On the EU side, it includes: Denmark; France; Germany; Italy; Poland; and the UK. The other members are Australia; Canada; Turkey; and the US.US president Barack Obama told press: “We are going to degrade and ultimately destroy ISIL [an alternative name for IS] ... the same way we’ve gone after al-Qaeda, and the same way we’ve gone after its affiliates in Somalia”.IS is a radical Sunni Muslim group which controls territory in Iraq and Syria.It is considered a threat to EU countries because hundreds of European Muslims have joined it and might come home to carry out terrorist attacks.It has also beheaded Western hostages and exterminated Christian communities.Obama noted the US has already carried out “more than 100” air strikes on IS forces.France, Germany, Italy, the UK, and the US have also supplied small arms and heavy-calibre machine guns to Kurdish forces in northern Iraq to help them fight the jihadists.But Core Group leaders at the Nato event ruled out: sending ground troops; negotiating with IS on hostages; or forming an alliance with IS adversary, Syrian leader Bashar Assad.They said the campaign could take up to three years.They also said Western diplomacy will play an important role in persuading Arab allies to deligitimise IS.“It is critical to have Arab states, and major Sunni states, rejecting the kind of nihilism which ISIL represents and saying that this is not what Islam is about”, Obama said.Replying to questions on co-operation with Assad, British leader David Cameron added: “We can’t act in a way that undermines our moral authority, to start acting on the principle that my enemy’s enemy is my friend”.For his part, Nato head Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the alliance itself will not play a combat role.But it is willing to launch a training mission for Iraqi security forces if the incoming Iraqi government asks it to.Rasmussen also said Nato states will share more intelligence on IS financing and overseas recruitment. “The issue of returning foreign fighters is really a matter of concern from [Nato’s] security point of view”, he noted.
Nato expansion unlikely before late 2015-05.09.14 @ 16:36-EUOBSERVER-By Andrew Rettman
NEWPORT - Nato leaders have indicated the alliance will not take in any new aspirant states until late next year.Its secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, said at the Nato summit in Wales on Friday (5 September): “We will assess, at the end of 2015 at the latest, whether to invite Montenegro to join the alliance”.He added that the two sides will “intensify” co-operation in the meantime, with Nato officials saying Montenegro still has homework on technical military standards.Two other countries - Bosnia and Macedonia - have membership action plans.Georgia has asked to join. Opinion surveys in Ukraine after Russia invaded the country say most people also want to be in the alliance.Rasmussen noted that Georgia’s next step is to become part of an “enhanced co-operation group”, together with Australia, Jordan, Moldova, and Sweden.He did not mention Ukraine.But he added, alluding to Russia’s opposition to Nato expansion, that: “Nato’s door remains open. Each country will continue to be judged on its merits and no third party has a veto over Nato enlargement”.Ukraine is planning to introduce a bill to scrap its non-aligned status so that it can apply one day.Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko, speaking in Wales on Wednesday, indicated that he might hold a referendum on the question in the coming years.“When the country will be adequately prepared for the [technical] criteria of membership, the Ukrainian people will decide”, he said.But German chancellor Angela Merkel told German press the same evening that Ukrainian accession is not on Nato’s agenda at this time.On Bosnia, a Nato official said it is stuck in limbo, due, in part, to disagreements between ethnic Serbs and Bosniaks on which bits of the federation should host which military bases.He added that Greece-Macedonia talks “have not gone well” on the name dispute, which has seen Greece veto Macedonia’s Nato entry because Macedonia uses the same name as a bordering Greek province. Rasmussen’s comments on Russia’s non-veto come despite the risk that pro-Russia forces will occupy east and south Ukraine in a frozen conflict designed to stop it from joining Western blocs.The situation already exists in Georgia and Moldova, where Russian soldiers protect three breakaway republics.The Nato official added that a border dispute does not categorically rule out Nato entry, however.“It’s not a show-stopper”, he said, noting that Norway joined the alliance despite having a maritime boundary dispute with Russia at the time.Two other Nordic nations - Finland and Sweden - at the Nato summit signed a “host nation status” agreement which allows Nato troops to deploy on their territory in future.Neither has joined Nato because Finland is wary of antagonising Russia, but both have worked on Nato “inter-operability” for several years.Asked by EUobserver if Rasmussen’s mention of late-2015 means no new members until that time, the Nato official said “unless of course Finland or Sweden opt to join … if they do, they would walk in within a week”.
EU to adopt Russia sanctions despite ceasefire-05.09.14 @ 20:18-EUOBSERVER-By Andrew Rettman
NEWPORT - EU countries are to adopt new sanctions on Russia despite the Ukraine ceasefire, but might revoke them if things go well.German chancellor Angela Merkel said at a Nato summit in Wales on Friday (5 September) that the situation is “fluid … one has to look at the ceasefire, if it holds. One has to look at the Russian troops, are they withdrawing?”She added: “these sanctions could indeed be put in place … but with the stipulation they can be suspended again [if the peace process succeeds]”.British PM David Cameron said: “Be in no doubt: the sanctions go ahead as announced”.“But if the ceasefire agreement holds and leads to a genuine peace plan … it would be right to take a second look”.Dutch PM Mark Rutte noted: “First see, then believe - the sanctions process will continue”.The sanctions are being imposed because thousands of Russian infantry troops and hundreds of armoured vehicles invaded east Ukraine last week.The EU leaders spoke after Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko told media on the golf course at the Nato event that he had agreed ceasefire terms with pro-Russia rebels.But the EU and US are sceptical the deal will stick or that Russia will give back conquered territory.US president Barack Obama also said “we [the US] are finalising measures to deepen sanctions against Russia”.“With respect to the ceasefire, we are hopeful, but, based on past experience, also sceptical”.Russia’s timing of the ceasefire agreement - on the last day of an EU ultimatum and the last day of the Nato meeting - led some to see it as a trick.“What we’ve seen in Ukraine since the start of the conflict is the creation of ambiguity designed to delay, or paralyse, [Western] decision making”, a Nato military commander, Sir Adrian Bradshaw, noted.The new sanctions are to include more restrictions on Russian banks, oil firms, and defence companies, as well as more names on the EU’s visa ban and asset freeze list.A British diplomat told EUobserver they are to be finalised on Friday and enter into life on Monday when they are published in the bloc’s Official Journal.One EU diplomat said the economic sanctions could be agreed on Friday, but the blacklist might wait until next week. A second EU diplomat said - “Inshallah” - both would be ready for Monday.
Rapid reaction force
The sanctions decision is just one part of the Western reaction to Russia’s war on Ukraine.Obama noted there will be more Nato air patrols in the Baltic region, more warships in the Black Sea, and more exercises in eastern Europe.The allies agreed to stop making defence cuts in their budgets.They agreed to create, by early or mid-2015, a Very High Readiness Joint Task Force of 4,000 men to deter Russian aggression on Nato’s eastern borders.They could not agree on hosting them in permanent bases in the region because Merkel opposed the idea, Spiegel reports.But they compensated Poland by deciding to hold their next summit, in 2016, in Warsaw.“It will be an extremely interesting experience - a Nato summit in Warsaw, the same place where some time ago we saw the fall of the Warsaw Pact”, Polish president Bronislaw Komorowski said, referring to the collapse of the Communist defence alliance after 1989.
THE EARTH (WORLD) NEVER ENDS (AS WORLD ENDERS CLAIM)(THE END OF THE AGE OF GRACE ONLY)(DECIEVERS CLAIME THE END OF THE WORLD-NOT ME)
ECCLESIASTES 1:4
4 One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.(AND EVER)(WORLD NEVER ENDS)(END OF THE AGE OF GRACE ONLY,NOT THE END OF THE WORLD)
PSALMS 104:5
5 Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.(NO END OF THE WORLDERS NONESENSE HERE)
MATTHEW 5:5
5 Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.(FOREVER,NOT HEAVEN)
PSALMS 37:29
29 The righteous shall inherit the land,(ON EARTH) and dwell therein for ever.
ISAIAH 45:17
17 But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation:(FOREVER) ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.(JERUSALEM ISRAEL ON EARTH FOREVER-NEVER ENDING)
EPHESIANS 3:21
21 Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
GENESIS 1:1-3
1 In the beginning God(FATHER,SON JESUS) created the heaven and the earth.
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the(HOLY)Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.(THE TRINITY CREATED ALL IN THE BEGINNING)
3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Stephen Hawking: God particle could wipe out the universe-cnet-In a preface to new book, the famed physicist fears the Higgs Boson becoming unstable and causing a "catastrophic vacuum decay." But how likely is that really?-by Chris Matyszczyk-September 7, 2014 9:30 AM PDT
Stephen Hawking seems to have turned into the man with the sandwich board that says: "The end is nigh."Not only has he warned us that aliens might destroy us, but he's also been worrying that artificial intelligence might do the same.Now he's perceiving a threat that might not merely put an end to Earth, but to the whole Universe.As the UK's Sunday Times reports, Hawking is worried about the God particle. This, discovered by physicists during experiments within CERN's Large Hadron Collider, is a vital ingredient to explaining why things in our world have mass.However, in a preface to a new book called "Starmus" -- a collection of lectures gives by famous scientists and astronomers -- Hawking worried that the Higgs Boson might become unstable.He wrote: "The Higgs potential has the worrisome feature that it might become metastable at energies above 100bn gigaelectronvolts (GeV)."What might this lead to? Hawkins explained: "This could mean that the universe could undergo catastrophic vacuum decay, with a bubble of the true vacuum expanding at the speed of light. This could happen at any time and we wouldn't see it coming." Before you prepare your loved ones for an evacuation to some distant star, Hawking did offer some hope with, it seems, a wry smile: "A particle accelerator that reaches 100bn GeV would be larger than Earth, and is unlikely to be funded in the present economic climate."More Technically IncorrectIn essence, then, his fears might be theoretically valid, but their likelihood of actually coming to pass is somewhat smaller than that of the New York Jets winning the next Super Bowl.Still, you have to wonder about Hawking's relationship with the Higgs Boson discovery. First, there's the fact that he lost a $100 bet over its unearthing. Then he mused last year that now the Higgs Boson had been identified, physics has become less interesting.However, given that he believes we only have perhaps 1,000 years left on Earth anyway, it's as well to explore every possible scenario, before the robots and algorithms secure minds of their own and, as their first step, eliminate us all.
09/ 7/2014 - VATICAN INSIDER-What about those Muslims who condemn Islamic State violence? Cairo - Al-Azhar university has spoken out against IS-Jihadist attacks continue to horrify the world. But the media is doing little to give a voice to non-violent Muslims who oppose the extremists. Three Catholic magazines have spoken out against this-Gerolamo Fazzini
Rome-Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists are spreading violence and death. The entire world is still shaken by the horrific murder of James Foley and Steven Sotloff, the two US journalists who were decapitated and the macabre scenes captured on video. International politics is trying to react but Muslim countries are expected to take more concrete initiatives.But within civil society “many Sunni Muslims have raised their voices against IS, even though this is not always mentioned in the media. This is not just the case in the West but also in more conservative Muslim countries,” writes Popoli, the international monthly magazine of the Jesuits in Italy.Among those who have spoken out against IS’s ferocity is the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Abdul Aziz ibn Abdullah Al-Sheikh, who on 19 August called both IS and Al Qaeda “Islam’s number one enemies,” adding that they did not belong to the common faith of all Muslims. The Wahhabi movement, which backs the Saudi regime shares some of the terrorists’ doctrines but is averse to their violent approach and the destabilizing threat they pose.”Key figures in the area have also condemned the attacks, Popoli goes on to say, starting with the Grand Mufti of Al-Azhar (Egypt), Shawqi Allam, who denounced ISIS as a threat to Islam. The Jesuit magazine also quotes the head of Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate, Mehmet Görmez, who said that "the statement made against Christians is truly awful. Islamic scholars need to focus on this (because) an inability to peacefully sustain other faiths and cultures heralds the collapse of a civilization.”Similarly, Missione Oggi, a magazine published by the Saverian missionaries of Brescia (Italy), writes: “Iraq’s Muslims are not all ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) extremists. Many are Muslims who want peace. Some have even died to defend Christians in Mosul. Mahmoud al ‘Asali was a law professor who lectured on pedagogy at the University of Mosul. He was killed because he had the courage to tell ISIS’s militants that that was not the Kind of Islam he believed in. He was fully aware of the risk he was running in stating this publicly. He refused to become an accomplice to violence and pay for this with his life.” Vatican Insider published an article about his experience, in July.The issue was also covered by Jesus magazine (September issue) in its “East east east” column. Jesus called the poor media coverage of Professor Al ‘Asali’s killing as a “sin of omission”. The monthly magazine published by Edizioni San Paolo explained that “his story shows that there are Muslims who are on the side of persecuted Christians. They are often referred to as “moderates” but this is too weak an adjective when one considers the incredibly high price such people often pay.”Jesus recalls that the Iraqi professor’s case is not an isolated one and leads one to reflect on other situations where Muslim representatives have taken a stand against violent extremism: “Another Muslim, Judge Arif Iqbal Bhatti also paid a high price. He was assassinated in Lahore (Pakistan) in 1997 after he had been accused of acquitting two Christians – Rehmat Masih and Salamat Masih - accused of blasphemy three years earlier. “In 2011, another Pakistani Muslim, Salman Taseer, governor of the Punjab region, was put to death for trying to combat Islamic extremism and being excessively sympathetic to the cause of persecuted Christians. Salman Taseer defended Asia Bibi, the 45-year-old woman sentenced to death on charges of blasphemy and still awaiting a ruling on the appeal of her death sentence. Shahbaz Bhatti, the Christian minister for religious minorities had been working alongside him in support of this cause: both were killed within three months of each other.”
09/ 7/2014 - VATICAN INSIDER-Francis: “Insulting is not Christian! Even words kill”-The Pope during the Angelus-At today’s Angelus Francis spoke about fraternal correction and sent out an appeal for the ceasefire in eastern Ukraine: “I pray that … the dialogue that has started will continue to bear the fruit that is hoped”-marco tosatti
vatican city-Insulting is not Christian and we must not kill with words. Commenting on today’s Gospel reading on fraternal correction, Pope Francis stressed that relations between Christians and between Christians and others must reflect a spirit of charity and an awareness that we are all sinners and need God’s mercy.“How do I correct another Christian when he or she does a bad thing?” Francis asked. “I have to use charity towards him/her and, first of all, talk to him/her personally.” Francis recalled the three steps the Gospel suggests should be taken: “talk to him personally, explaining that what he has said or done is not good. And if the brother does not listen to me? Jesus suggests a progressive intervention: first, go back with two or three other people to make him more aware of the mistake he has made. If, despite this, he does not accept the exhortation, I need to tell the community. And if he won’t even listen to the community, I need to make him feel the fracture and detachment that he himself has caused, by failing in communion with our brothers and sisters in the faith.”“Fraternal correction” is a “reciprocal service.” It is rooted in the awareness that we are all sinners and that Jesus “invites everyone, saints and sinners, to his table.” Francis then went on to condemn gossip as he has done on various other occasions in the past: On this path of fraternal correction “it is first necessary to avoid the clamor of news and the gossip of the community.”“An attitude of gentleness, prudence, humility, and attention against those who have committed a crime, avoiding that words can hurt and kill the brother … When I make an unfair criticism, when I “curse” a brother with my tongue, this is killing the reputation of the other!” Fraternal correction “also helps us – us - to free ourselves from anger or resentment which only hurt: that bitterness of the heart that brings anger and resentment, and that lead us to insult and attack. But it is very bad to see this come out of the mouth of a Christian as an insult or an attack! It’s bad! Got it? No insults! Insulting is not Christian!” He stressed this idea twice in order to highlight the importance of this concept.By correcting our brothers and sisters, we are doing them a service because we are all sinners and the best way to prepare ourselves properly for mass is to reflect on the fact that we are all sinners and then that God is merciful with everyone. “The same conscience that makes me recognize the mistake of the other, beforehand reminds me that I have erred and wronged so many times. “And it is the same Jesus who invites us all, saints and sinners, to his table by gathering us on the main crossroads, the various situations life.”At the end of the Angelus prayer, recited in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Francis sent out a special appeal for the Russo-Ukrainian crisis that is still raging. “In these last few days have been significant steps in the search for a truce in the regions affected by the conflict in eastern Ukraine. I hope that they can bring relief to the population and contribute to the efforts for a lasting peace. I pray that, in the logic of the meeting, the dialogue that has started will continue to bear the fruit that is hoped,” he said.
U.S. air strikes target insurgents near Iraq's Haditha Dam-Reuters-By Ned Parker and Phil Stewart-SEPT 7,14-YAHOONEWS
BAGHDAD/TBILISI (Reuters) - U.S. warplanes carried out four strikes on Islamic State insurgents menacing Iraq's Haditha Dam on Sunday, witnesses and officials said, widening what President Barack Obama called a campaign to curb and ultimately defeat the jihadist movement.Obama has branded Islamic State an acute threat to the West as well as Middle East and said that key NATO allies stand ready to back Washington in action against the well-armed sectarian force, which has seized expanses of northern Iraq and eastern Syria and declared a border-blurring religious caliphate.The leader of a pro-Iraqi government paramilitary force in western Iraq said the air strikes wiped out an Islamic State patrol trying to attack the dam - Iraq's second biggest hydroelectric facility that also provides millions with water."They (the air strikes) were very accurate. There was no collateral damage ... If Islamic State had gained control of the dam, many areas of Iraq would have been seriously threatened, even (the capital) Baghdad," Sheik Ahmed Abu Risha told Reuters.The aerial assault drove Islamic State fighters away from the dam, according to a police intelligence officer in the vast western province of Anbar, a hotbed of Islamist insurgency.A mix of fighter and bomber aircraft destroyed five Islamic State Humvees, one IS armed vehicle, an IS checkpoint and also damaged an IS bunker, the U.S. military added in a statement.The strikes were Washington's first reported offensive into Anbar since it started attacks on Islamic State forces in the north of Iraq in August.Almost three years afters U.S. troops withdrew from Iraq and 11 years after their invasion to topple Saddam Hussein, the war on Islamic State is drawing Washington back into the middle of Iraq's power struggles and bloody sectarian strife.U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said the strikes on the Sunni Muslim insurgents had been carried out at the request of the Shi'ite Muslim-led central government in Baghdad.“If that dam would fall into (Islamic State's) hands or if that dam would be destroyed, the damage that would cause would be very significant and it would put a significant, additional and big risk into the mix in Iraq,” Hagel told reporters during a trip to Georgia’s capital Tbilisi.
OBAMA VOWS TO REPEL, DEFEAT ISLAMIC STATE
Obama said at the weekend he would explain to Americans this week his plan to "start going on some offense" against Islamic State. "We are going to be a part of an international coalition, carrying out air strikes in support of work on the ground by Iraqi troops, Kurdish troops, he said in an NBC TV interview."We are going to systematically degrade their capabilities. We're going to shrink the territory that they control. And ultimately we're going to defeat 'em."The six-month-old battle for control of the Haditha Dam has been a rare case of cooperation between local Sunni tribes and the Shi'ite-led Iraqi military. The Juhayfa tribe in Haditha has a long-standing fight with the Islamic State, which split with its parent organization al Qaeda last year.Anbar is complicated terrain for the Americans as they seek to root out Islamic State, since Sunnis fighting on behalf of the Baghdad government are the exception to the rule.The large desert province, bordering Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, has been at war with Baghdad since last December when then-Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki sent troops to raze an anti-government demonstrators' camp.That sparked a tribal revolt against Maliki whom Sunnis accused of isolating them with indiscriminate arrests. Islamic State fighters took advantage of the chaos to muscle in and become the dominant force among Sunnis.The fighting there, which has displaced 430,000 people since January, strengthened Islamic State ahead of its lightning blitz this summer across the north of Iraq, also threatening the semi-autonomous, Western-backed enclave of Kurdistan.Thriving on Maliki's sectarian-motivated alienation of Sunnis, Islamic State committed wide-scale atrocities against Shi'ites, Christians and other non-Sunnis this summer as the Iraqi army imploded in the face of the insurgents' advance.Since June, Islamic State has massacred hundreds of soldiers outside of Saddam's hometown Tikrit after capturing it, and killed a similar number of Yazidis and other religious minorities outside of Mosul, the north's biggest city.Obama ordered air strikes in northern Iraq last month as Kurdish-controlled territory fell to the Islamic State and the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan looked in endangered.Last weekend, U.S. warplanes carried out raids further south in the province of Saluhuddin to break an Islamic State siege of the Shi'ite Turkmen town of Amerli.(Additional reporting by Phil Stewart in Tbilisi, Roberta Rampton and Steve Holland in Washington; Editing by Mark Heinrich)
Four NATO allies deny Ukraine statement on providing arms-Reuters-SEPT 7,14-YAHOONEWS
KIEV (Reuters) - A senior aide to Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko said on Sunday that Kiev had agreed at the NATO summit in Wales on the provision of weapons and military advisers from five NATO member states, but four of the five swiftly denied any such deal had been reached.NATO officials have previously said the alliance will not send arms to non-member Ukraine, but have also said individual allies may do so if they wish. A NATO official contacted by Reuters on Sunday on the Lytsenko comment reiterated this policy."At the NATO summit agreements were reached on the provision of military advisers and supplies of modern armaments from the United States, France, Italy, Poland and Norway," Poroshenko aide Yuri Lytsenko said on his Facebook page.Lytsenko gave no further details. He may have made his comment for domestic political reasons to highlight the degree of NATO commitment to Ukraine and to its pro-Western president.Poroshenko, whose armed forces are battling pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, attended the two-day summit in Wales that ended on Friday.A senior U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, denied that the United States had made such a pledge. The official told Reuters, "No U.S. offer of lethal assistance has been made to Ukraine."Asked about Lytsenko's comments, defense ministry officials in Italy, Poland and Norway also denied plans to provide arms.In France, an aide at the Elysee palace declined to comment."This news is incorrect. Italy, along with other EU and NATO countries, is preparing a package of non-lethal military aid such as bullet-proof vests and helmets for Ukraine," an Italian defense ministry official told Reuters.Norwegian Defense Ministry spokesman Lars Gjemble, speaking to the NTB news agency, said, "We're participating with staff officers in two military exercises in Ukraine, but it's not correct that we're delivering weapons to Ukraine."A Polish defense ministry spokesman, Lieutenant Colonel Jacek Sonta, said by email, "There (was) no agreement concerning supply of modern arms from Poland to Ukraine at the NATO summit."NATO officials have said the alliance will not send weapons to Ukraine, which is not a member state, but they have also said individual allies may choose to do so.Russia is fiercely opposed to closer ties between Ukraine and the NATO alliance.(Reporting by Gareth Jones in Kiev, Steve Scherer in Rome, Balasz Koranyi in Oslo and Marcin Goclowski in Warsaw, Will Dunham in Washington; Writing by Gareth Jones; Editing by Hugh Lawson)
Ceasefire in east Ukraine frays, woman killed by shelling-Reuters-SEPT 7,114-YAHOONEWS-Gabriela Baczynska and Aleksandar Vasovic
DONETSK/MARIUPOL Ukraine (Reuters) - A woman died and at least four people were wounded when fighting flared again in eastern Ukraine overnight into Sunday, jeopardizing a ceasefire struck less than two days earlier between Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian separatists.The accord, brokered by envoys from Ukraine, the separatist leadership, Russia and Europe's OSCE security watchdog, is part of a peace plan intended to end a five-month conflict that has killed nearly 3,000 people and caused the sharpest confrontation between Russia and the West since the Cold War.Shelling resumed near the port of Mariupol on the Sea of Azov late on Saturday, just hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko had agreed in a phone call that the truce was holding.Fighting also broke out early on Sunday on the northern outskirts of rebel-held Donetsk, the region's industrial hub. A Reuters reporter saw plumes of black smoke filling the sky near the airport, which has been in the hands of government forces."Listen to the sound of the ceasefire," joked one armed rebel. "There's a proper battle going on there."The two cities then turned quiet for much of Sunday, but a Reuters witness in the early evening reported several mortar blasts within the city confines of Donetsk. They damaged a bridge where the rebels had erected a roadblock.In a new report on the conflict, Amnesty International accused both the rebels and Ukrainian militia of war crimes and it published satellite images it said showed a build-up of Russian armor and artillery in eastern Ukraine."Our evidence shows that Russia is fuelling the conflict, both through direct interference and by supporting the separatists in the east. Russia must stop the steady flow of weapons and other support to an insurgent force heavily implicated in gross human rights violations," Amnesty's secretary-general, Salil Shetty, said in a statement.Moscow denies dispatching forces or arming the rebels despite what NATO says is overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
WESTERN ARMS - OR NOT?
Poroshenko spent Thursday and Friday at a NATO summit in Wales at which U.S. President Barack Obama and other leaders urged Putin to pull forces out of Ukraine. NATO also approved wide-ranging plans to boost its defenses in Eastern Europe in response to the Ukraine crisis.A senior aide to Poroshenko, Yuri Lytsenko, wrote on his Facebook page on Sunday that Kiev had reached agreement at the summit on receiving weapons and military advisers from five allies - the United States, France, Italy, Poland and Norway.He gave no further details, but four of the five countries denied offering such assistance.A senior Obama administration said the United States "has not changed policy" toward Ukraine, which thus far has been to provide only non-lethal military assistance.The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, did not appear to rule out the possibility that Washington might at some point choose to offer arms to Kiev.The official said the United States had so far given $70 million in security assistance to Ukraine and noted that U.S. President Barack Obama had said he was "looking at what more we can do."Officials in Italy, Norway and Poland issued similar denials."Italy, along with other EU and NATO countries, is preparing a package of non-lethal military aid such as bullet-proof vests and helmets for Ukraine," an official at Italy's Defence Ministry said.In France, an aide at the president's Elysee Palace declined to comment.NATO officials have said the alliance will not send arms to non-member Ukraine, but they have also said individual allies may do so if they wish. A NATO official contacted by Reuters on Sunday about the Lytsenko comment reiterated that line.Russia is fiercely opposed to closer ties between Ukraine and the NATO alliance.The Ukraine conflict has revived talk of a new Cold War as the West accuses Putin of deliberately destabilizing the former Soviet republic of 46 million people. Ukraine's prime minister accused Putin of striving to recreate the Soviet Union.Putin says he is defending the interests of ethnic Russians facing discrimination and oppression in Ukraine since protesters toppled Kiev's pro-Russian president in February.Putin has seen his popularity in Russia soar since Moscow annexed Ukraine's Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, which has a Russian majority, in March.
MUTUAL RECRIMINATIONS
Both the rebels and the Ukrainian military insisted on Sunday they were strictly observing the ceasefire and blamed their opponents for any violations."As far as I know, the Ukrainian side is not observing the ceasefire. We have wounded on our side at various points. We are observing the ceasefire," Vladimir Antyufeyev, deputy premier of the self-proclaimed "Donetsk People's Republic", told Reuters.Earlier, government forces said they had come under artillery fire east of Mariupol, a crucial port for Ukrainian steel exports. In the days before the ceasefire, they had been trying to repel a big rebel offensive against the city.The shelling in Mariupol claimed the first civilian casualty since the ceasefire began. Local officials confirmed the death of a 33-year-old woman early on Sunday and said at least four other people had been wounded."They, terrorists, Russians, are trying to scare us. They have no respect for the ceasefire. They are lying all the time. They are people with no honor," said Slavik, a Ukrainian soldier armed with a machinegun.A Reuters reporter at the scene, a few km (miles) from the center of the city of 500,000, saw fires raging just before midnight on Saturday as Ukrainian reinforcements raced east toward the demarcation line separating the two sides.Poroshenko agreed to the ceasefire after Ukraine accused Russia of sending troops and arms onto its territory to bolster the separatists after they suffered heavy losses over the summer to a Ukrainian government offensive.The peace roadmap agreed on Friday includes an exchange of prisoners of war and the establishment of a humanitarian corridor for refugees and aid. There was no sign of progress on either plan on Sunday.(Additional reporting by Steve Scherer in Rome, Marcin Goclowski in Warsaw, Adrian Croft in Brussels, Arshad Mohammed in Washington, and Julien Ponthus in Paris; Writing by Gareth Jones; Editing by Mark Heinrich, Sonya Hepinstall, Hugh Lawson and Peter Cooney)
Arab League chief: Confront Islamic State group-Associated Press-By SARAH EL DEEB and SAMEER N. YACOUB-SEPT 7,14-YAHOONEWS
CAIRO (AP) — The head of the Arab League urged its members Sunday to confront Islamic State extremists "militarily and politically," issuing an apparent call to arms as President Barack Obama prepares to go to lawmakers and the American public with his own plan to stop the militants.Backing from the 22-country Arab League could provide crucial support across the Middle East for Obama's effort to assemble an international coalition against the Islamic State, the marauding group that has conquered a swath of Iraq and Syria and committed beheadings and mass killings to sow terror.Already, NATO forces have agreed to take on the extremists.Arab League chief Nabil Elaraby said that what is needed from Arab countries is a "clear and firm decision for a comprehensive confrontation" with "cancerous and terrorist" groups. The Arab League includes Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Lebanon, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.Obama will meet with congressional leaders on Tuesday and then outline his plan to the war-weary American public Wednesday, the eve of the 13th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks."I just want the American people to understand the nature of the threat and how we're going to deal with it and to have confidence that we'll be able to deal with it," Obama said in an interview broadcast Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press."In new airstrikes Sunday, the U.S. targeted Islamic State fighters in Iraq's long-contested Anbar province for the first time, launching attacks with bomber and fighter aircraft.The American military said the airstrikes destroyed, among other things, an Islamic Group command post and several vehicles, two of which were carrying anti-aircraft artillery.It wasn't immediately clear what steps the Arab League would take in supporting the West's campaign against the Islamic State. And reaching a consensus on how to move could be complicated by Arab world rivalries and member countries' different spheres of influence.An Arab diplomat speaking to Egypt's official MENA news agency said a resolution backing cooperation with the U.S. would go before members Sunday. He did not elaborate.But a draft resolution obtained by The Associated Press offered only routine condemnation of terrorist groups operating in the region. It also called on member states to improve information-sharing and legal expertise in combating terrorism, and to prevent the paying of ransom to militants.Elaraby himself noted that the Arab League's member states have failed to help each other in the past when facing local armed groups, often because of disagreements and fear of being accused of meddling in one another's affairs.He called the Islamic State a threat to the existence of Iraq and its neighbors. It is "one of the examples of the challenges that are violently shaking the Arab world, and one the Arab League, regrettably, has not been able to confront," he said.A decades-old joint Arab defense agreement states that member countries can act alone or collectively to ward off attack and restore peace by all means, including force. Elaraby, a longtime Egyptian diplomat, said an agreement to activate that clause in the 1950 agreement is needed.Before the Arab League meeting, Elaraby spoke by telephone to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to discuss the Islamic State insurgents.A senior State Department official, speaking on condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to publicly discuss the private diplomatic conversation, said Kerry updated Elaraby on efforts to combat the insurgents."They discussed the need for the Arab League and its members to take a strong position in the coalition that is developing ... and the importance of decisive action" to stop the flow of foreign fighters, disrupt the Islamic State's financing and combat incitement, the official said.Kerry said the military aspect is only one part of the effort, and more comprehensive coordination with Arab countries — combining law enforcement, intelligence, economic and diplomatic tools — is required, the official said.Meanwhile, the U.S. said it launched airstrikes around Haditha Dam in western Iraq. U.S. officials said the offensive was an effort to beat back the militants from the dam, which remained under Iraqi control.The militants could have opened or damaged the dam, flooding wide areas as far as Baghdad's international airport, where hundreds of U.S. personnel are stationed, National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said.U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, traveling in Georgia, said the Iraqi government had asked the U.S. to launch the airstrikes.Amid the fighting, the province's governor and the mayor of Haditha were wounded by a roadside bomb, said Faleh al-Issawi, a member of Anbar's provincial council. Gov. Gov. Ahmed al-Dulaimi later tweeted that he was not seriously hurt.___Yacoub reported from Baghdad.___Associated Press writers Lolita C. Baldor in Tbilisi, Georgia, and Darlene Superville in Washington contributed to this report.
EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH(BECAUSE OF SIN,VIOLENCE AND GODLESS PEOPLE)
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Earthquake shakes Iceland volcano, still no ash-Reuters-SEPT 7,14-YAHOONEWS
REYKJAVIK (Reuters) - An earthquake struck the region around Iceland's Bardarbunga volcano on Sunday while fissures in the area continued to spew out lava but still none of the ash that could hamper airline traffic.The earthquake occurred at 0708 GMT and reached a magnitude of 5.4, making it one of the bigger quakes in the area in central Iceland since significant tremors began on Aug. 16, often producing thousands of quakes per day."There was also another quake, magnitude 4.6 at 0330 (GMT) in the night," said Bergthora Thorbjarnardottir, geologist at the Icelandic Meteorological Office."Seismic activity underneath Bardarbunga volcano is still ongoing but remains steady," she added.Lava from the fissures around Bardarbunga has so far reached the surface only on land that is not covered by ice, whereas an eruption under an ice cap may be explosive and result in an ash cloud that could under certain circumstances disrupt aviation.A cloud of abrasive ash from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano, in a different region of Iceland, closed much of Europe's air space for six days, stranding tens of thousands of passengers, after an eruption under the ice cap.The ash warning level for aviation related to the current fissure eruptions remained at orange, the second-highest level on a five-color scale, after several brief hikes to the top red in recent weeks.(Reporting by Robert Robertsson; writing by Niklas Pollard; Editing by Alison Williams)
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)
THE FIRST JUDGEMENT OF THE EARTH STARTED WITH WATER-IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THE LAST GENERATION WILL BE HAVING FLOODING
GENESIS 7:6-12
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
GOD PROMISED BY A RAINBOW-THE EARTH WOULD NEVER BE DESTROYED TOTALLY WITH A FLOOD AGAIN.BUT FLOODIING IS A SIGN OF JUDGEMENT.
Tropical storm Norbert weaker, but still lashing Mexico coast-AFP-SEPT 7,14-YAHOONEWS
La Paz (AFP) - Tropical storm Norbert weakened quickly over cool waters in the Pacific Ocean, forecasters said Sunday, after the storm left some 2,500 people homeless in Mexico.The storm had surged to a category three hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale but by Sunday had lost much of its punch and was downgraded to a tropical storm, packing top sustained winds of 60 miles (95 kilometers) per hour, said the US National Hurricane Center.Norbert was expected to mostly dissipate by Monday morning, the Miami-based center said.Nevertheless, "very heavy winds were expected on the west coast of Baja California Sur," in northwestern Mexico, "and there was potential of heavy rains in (neighboring states) Baja California and Sonora," Mexico's national weather service said.In the hard-hit fishing village of San Carlos, in southwest Baja California, pumps were draining flood waters after the storm destroyed levees protecting the community of 7,000 people.Local official Venustiano Perez had said Saturday night there were "more than 2,500 people homeless" and another 1,500 whose homes were damaged in the storm.Authorities in Baja California Sur said conditions had returned to normal in the state, but said they were maintaining surveillance in the northern part of the state and assessing a final damage tally.On Saturday, some 2,000 people were evacuated to shelters, which were then cut off by landslides and power outages.Last year, Mexico was simultaneously struck by a pair of hurricanes, Ingrid and Manuel, on both coasts, killing 157 people, destroying bridges and burying most of a mountain village in the Pacific coast state of Guerrero.
EARTHQUAKES
ISAIAH 42:15
15 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ Worldwide
35 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2014-09-07 19:05:19 UTC-04:00Showing event times using Local System Time (UTC-04:00)35 earthquakes in map area
2.7 7km WSW of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2014-09-07 16:30:55 UTC-04:00 5.0 km
3.1 50km N of Dorado, Puerto Rico 2014-09-07 15:04:27 UTC-04:00 49.0 km
2.5 4km NW of The Geysers, California 2014-09-07 14:33:01 UTC-04:00 0.0 km
2.6 10km W of Helena, Oklahoma 2014-09-07 14:15:32 UTC-04:00 9.4 km
3.0 57km SSE of Alturas, California 2014-09-07 14:13:57 UTC-04:00 0.1 km
4.4 42km WNW of Khairpur Nathan Shah, Pakistan 2014-09-07 13:04:49 UTC- 30.2 km
2.7 23km S of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska 2014-09-07 12:46:58 UTC-04:00 78.4 km
2.7 21km S of Medford, Oklahoma 2014-09-07 12:31:49 UTC-04:00 4.7 km
4.5 48km SSW of Jucuaran, El Salvador 2014-09-07 12:26:33 UTC-04:00 72.3 km
5.2 283km SE of Pondaguitan, Philippines 2014-09-07 11:55:50 UTC-04:00 66.7 km
3.5 43km SW of Ferndale, California 2014-09-07 11:45:34 UTC-04:00 16.3 km
4.8 17km S of Palpa, Peru 2014-09-07 11:11:45 UTC-04:00 65.9 km
3.0 24km SSW of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska 2014-09-07 11:05:26 UTC-04:00 122.0 km
4.5 124km E of Taltal, Chile 2014-09-07 10:31:45 UTC-04:00 109.6 km
4.2 56km WSW of Rosarito, Mexico 2014-09-07 08:13:56 UTC-04:00 29.6 km
2.6 2km E of Medford, Oklahoma 2014-09-07 07:51:33 UTC-04:00 5.0 km
2.8 78km WSW of Cantwell, Alaska 2014-09-07 07:51:07 UTC-04:00 102.2 km
5.1 Federated States of Micronesia region 2014-09-07 07:46:21 UTC-04:00 16.1 km
4.3 2km E of Cutigliano, Italy 2014-09-07 06:45:01 UTC-04:00 7.7 km
4.7 Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge 2014-09-07 06:31:54 UTC-04:00 10.0 km
4.6 72km SW of Lixourion, Greece 2014-09-07 05:56:28 UTC-04:00 32.6 km
4.5 183km S of Biha, Indonesia 2014-09-07 05:33:00 UTC-04:00 28.6 km
2.5 58km SSW of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska 2014-09-07 05:27:07 UTC-04:00 126.2 km
2.6 9km NE of Holbrook, Arizona 2014-09-07 05:07:48 UTC-04:00 5.0 km
4.3 31km NW of Shahrud, Iran 2014-09-07 04:12:54 UTC-04:00 10.0 km
5.2 117km WNW of Hofn, Iceland 2014-09-07 03:07:59 UTC-04:00 5.0 km
2.6 97km NNW of Yakutat, Alaska 2014-09-07 02:54:49 UTC-04:00 1.1 km
4.7 108km NNE of Tobelo, Indonesia 2014-09-07 01:37:42 UTC-04:00 49.3 km
5.0 100km WNW of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea 2014-09-07 01:23:48 UTC-04:00 10.0 km
4.6 93km SSW of Ndoi Island, Fiji 2014-09-07 00:35:47 UTC-04:00 560.5 km
2.8 58km N of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 2014-09-06 23:57:40 UTC-04:00 26.0 km
3.1 61km N of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 2014-09-06 23:49:39 UTC-04:00 24.0 km
3.7 67km ESE of Adak, Alaska 2014-09-06 23:08:15 UTC-04:00 25.4 km
4.8 51km S of Yonakuni, Japan 2014-09-06 19:33:08 UTC-04:00 23.8 km
4.1 14km WNW of La Gomera, Guatemala 2014-09-06 19:14:15 UTC-04:00 75.3 km
